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CLARISSA AND SEPTIMUS 'S analysis
Virginia Woolf and Joyce are the most important exponents of the modernist fiction. Miss Dalloway represents a revolution in the art of novel writing. The rhythm is made of the alternation between what clarissa wants, thinks and feels (interior monologue) and the external reality (what happens around her). The text is compose into sequences.
There is the third person omniscient narrator who adopts Clarissa’s point of view. This allows the reader to know what there is inside Clarissa’s mind.
The language consists of indirected free style, free from logical connections between the phrases.
Clarissa is a self assured character, sure about her status.
For example “red hands”: metonymy allows the reader to understand the social class.
The most important feature of the text consists of the shift of the points of view: time in Clarissa’s mind is different from real time of the world arownd her. (simultaneous time)
The explosion in the text appeals to senses: it represents a brutal passage. Both two characters listen to the explosion even if they are distances. The narrator links them because he wants to juxtapose two person who are both suffering. They are looking for a sense of life. (the narrator makes them travel in space).